great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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